Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Smoker's face describes the characteristic changes that happen to the faces of many people who smoke tobacco products. [1] [2] Smoking causes damage to the skin by depleting the skin of oxygen and nutrients. [3] The general appearance is of accelerated ageing of the face, with a characteristic pattern of facial wrinkling and sallow coloration.
Smoker melanosis in a patient consuming 2 packs of cigarette per day. Smoking or the use of nicotine-containing drugs is the cause to Smoker's melanosis. [10] [11] Tar-components (benzopyrenes) are also known to stimulate melanocytes to melanin production, and other unknown toxic agents in tobacco may also be the cause.
In 2013, 77% of Nigerian women, 52% of Senegalese women, and 25% of Malian women were using lightening products. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 2020, Der Spiegel reported that in Ghana, "When You Are Light-Skinned, You Earn More", and that "[s]ome pregnant women take tablets in the hopes that it will lead their child to be born with fair skin.
STK typically occurs in the buccal sulcus (inside the cheek) or the labial sulcus (between the lips and the teeth) and corresponds to the site where the tobacco is held in the mouth. [6] It is painless. [7] The appearance of the lesion is variable depending upon the type of tobacco used, and the frequency and duration of use. [6]
ABCAfter Donald Trump praised Russian despot Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of troops along the Ukrainian border and subsequent invasion of Ukraine, someone apparently got in his ear this week ...
Reverse smoking is a kind of smoking where the burnt end of a hand rolled tobacco leaf is put in the mouth rather than the unlit end of the cigar. [1] It is practiced in some parts of Andhra Pradesh, India , Lusaka, Zambia and the Philippines .
Over 100 million viewers agree: M*A*S*H's feature-length series finale is one of the greatest mic drops in television history.Premiering 40 years ago on Feb. 28, 1983, the two-and-a-half-hour sign ...
A more pronounced appearance can occur with reverse smoking, sometimes distinguished from stomatitis nicotina by the term reverse smoker's stomatitis. While stomatitis nicotina that is caused by heat is not a premalignant condition (i.e. it does not carry an increased risk of transformation to oral cancer ), the condition that is caused by ...